"'Look at very small things with your eyes / & stay warm,' wrote Bernadette Mayer, addressing herself in the 1968 poem 'The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica.' 'Nothing outside can cure you but everything’s outside,' she continues. For the past five decades, Mayer, the author of more than 30 volumes, has marked herself as a cataloguer par excellence of everyday life, attuned to the rhythms of the world and her position as an artist in it. Steeped in the conceptualism of the 1970s, her early work eschewed the boundaries of genre and form to capture life’s grand moments and its minute details. In 1971, then age 26, she set out to synthesize such experiences in an artistic investigation of memory by recording the world as she lived it over the course of a single month. ..."
The Nation: An Emotional Science Project - Bernadette Mayer’s Memory.
Everyday Life, Revisited—with Bernadette Mayer’s Memory
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets - Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory” as an “Everyday-Life Project”
Brooklyn Rail - On Memory : Bernadette Mayer with Phillip Griffith
ARTFORUM - Interviews, Bernadette Mayer (Video)
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2008 December: Bernadette Mayer, 2016 June: Thirteen poems by Bernadette Mayer, 2019 June: The Poetry Project’s Half-Century of Dissent
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